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20 September
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
"Statistically, the mean … decamillionaire is a white, college-educated, sixty-two-year-old man … unusually likely to be married … They tend toward monomania. Their days are … 'full, busy, and mundane.'" newyorker.com
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If you had no college degree, were backed mostly by voters without degrees, yet claimed to be the voice of the formally educated, people would laugh. But a college grad backed by other college grads can claim to be the voice of the working class and people just accept it. Weird. Related
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Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
11 September
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The decline of reading. ‘By the end of the twentieth century, a college graduate born after 1969 read less than someone born before 1950 with a basic level of education. Indeed, nowadays many rich and highly educated people are much less well-read than many members of the least privileged classes had been in the middle of the twentieth century.’ edwest.co.uk
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1 September
Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
Education teaches you to analyze. Entrepreneurship teaches you to create. The educated mindset is great at dissecting and criticizing. What did Shakespeare mean here? What were the major forces of this historical period? What is the limiting reagent in this chemical reaction? The entrepreneurial mindset is great at building and improving. Design a better product. Craft a new marketing plan. Stop talking about what's wrong and make something better. The trick is to keep learning, but to never lose your ability to build. Related
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31 August
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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
14 August
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
I highly encourage everyone to read @DAcemogluMIT's latest book "What Happened to Liberal Democracy?" from @DuttonBooks, just released this week. Daron not only offers insightful analysis of how and why liberalism went astray, but also lays out a vision for a better path forward. Related
17 May
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I expect AI populism to be disproportionately young, educated, and slightly left-leaning Quoting @Kantrowitz This is incredible. Artificial intelligence getting booed out of the stadium in any commencement speech it’s mentioned. Maybe telling college students AI was taking their jobs wasn’t the best strategy. Must watch —> Related
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